Kensaq – What is it?

“Kensaq” search hijacker is a potentially unwanted application (PUA)¹, that is promoted as a plugin for your internet browser. It is typically shared as an add-on for Chrome or Firefox, that aids to search some special info, as an example, about sport events, make your browser a lot more secure, enable downloading of any type of web video, and so on. Also, this app adds the “Managed by your organization” feature (on Chrome browsers).

Nonetheless, the “Kensaq” plugin is quite useless since all such features are already embedded to your browser and/or Windows. Such advertising slogans are targeted at low-skilled computer users, such as pensioners or schoolchildren. However frequently even experienced users are getting caught on such a lure. In specific scenarios, this hijacker is distributed along with free programs.

How harmful is Kensaq hijacker?

Besides its uselessness, Kensaq hijacker is additionally quite harmful for web browser utilization. It alters your search engine to its particular – Kensaq.com, and also modifies your background, putting its watermark on your wallpaper (or, sometimes, changing it to default with the mentioned sign).

Besides seeable modifications done by Kensaq hijacker, you may see that several of your search queries are redirecting to the unknown web pages, filled with links and ads – so-called doorway sites. Such websites can consist of links for malware downloads. The chance of redirecting increases if you try to open Google search page by force.

However all these activities are more bothersome than truly hazardous. The main danger, specifically for people who have a huge amount of secret information in their web browsers, is embedded in information collecting functions. Cookie files, chats, often-visited web pages, and other activities are simply gathered by Kensaq hijacker.